Top 15 David Cameron Quotes

[W]hat I want is robust policy and measured language. I think with these populists what you get is inflammatory language and hopeless policy.

He [Nigel Farage] is currently trying to destroy the Conservative Party by standing for Reform. [...] I want to be as sure as we can that we get no Reform members of parliament and the Conservative Party can move forward.

When you are PM you are doing so many things at once. It's nice to focus on one thing, even if that one thing is the whole world!

[On his appointment as foreign secretary] I said yes surprisingly quickly actually, because I wasn't expecting it at all.

The Prime Minister has asked me to serve as his Foreign Secretary and I have gladly accepted.
We are facing a daunting set of international challenges, including the war in Ukraine and the crisis in the Middle East. At this time of profound global change, it has rarely been more important for this country to stand by our allies, strengthen our partnerships and make sure our voice is heard.
While I have been out of front-line politics for the last seven years, I hope that my experience – as Conservative Leader for eleven years and Prime Minister for six – will assist me in helping the Prime Minister to meet these vital challenges.

Today’s decision on HS2 is the wrong one.
It will help to fuel the views of those who argue that we can no longer think or act for the long term as a country; that we are heading in the wrong direction. [...]
I regret this decision and in years to come I suspect many will look back at today’s announcement and wonder how this once-in-a-generation opportunity was lost.

The thing about the greased piglet is that he manages to slip through other people’s hands where mere mortals fail

I hope [Theresa May] wins the vote tonight, I'm sure she will. I hope then that Parliament can come together and find an alternative partnership agreement with the European Union, that's the right way forward, that's what her deal was about last night and she has my support as she does this.

[I regret the] difficulties and the problems we've been having trying to implement the [Brexit] result

Brexit turned out less badly than we first thought. [The Leave vote was] a mistake not a disaster.

[A strong election victory would allow Theresa May to] stand up to people who want an extreme Brexit either here or in Brussels

The last thing I would say is that you can achieve a lot of things in politics and get a lot of things done; in the end, public service and the national interest is what it is all about. Nothing is really impossible if you put your mind to it. After all, as I once said, I was the future once.

Thank you very much. Doo, doo, doo, doo. Right.

while Britain is leaving the European Union, it will not, it should not and in my view it won't turn its back on Europe

It might be in my party's interest for him to sit there, it's not in the national interest and I would say, for heaven's sake man, go.